his time at Pools in Cloughies biography....'We inherited a real collection of renegades, Hartlepools was a clearing-house for every cast-off in the Football League - drinkers, gamblers, womanisers and fighters.
On keepers....'If I was a top class Manager I would be prepared to spend as much on a polished keeper as on a man like Denis Law. After all a keepers mistake can mean the difference between victory and defeat'..... Get Maxted on the pitch.

His mentor Harry Storer told him how he took a player to one side the day after a game and said 'show me this hole then?', 'what hole?' the confused player asked, 'the one you were hiding in for every minute yesterday' he replied.